This seems like common sense, right? Don’t be weird; don’t put people in an uncomfortable situation, no matter who they are. And yet...

YouTube’s biggest star says that he constantly has to deal with the problem of fans visiting his house, even though he’s moved multiple times across the years:

“I’ve even had parents coming over with their kids,” Pewdiepie said. “I’ve had people yell outside my house. I’ve had school-classes come outside. Just because you found my address doesn’t mean you found an invitation for you to come over.”

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Pewdiepie is right of course: he is still entitled to his privacy even though he’s accrued millions of fans. At the same time, YouTube’s entire appeal lies in the fantasy that viewers get to know their favorite personalities moreso than they would a traditional celebrity. It’s easy to see how a fan might start to believe that they are entitled access to a YouTuber, no matter what the circumstances are.

Traditional celebrities probably have to deal with obsessive fans all the time. In the realm of YouTube, this phenomenon is likely not new either, but the ways in which that that tension plays out in public has become more fraught recently. Earlier this year, YouTube star Christina Grimmie was fatally shot by an obsessive fan, leading to a change in policies at YouTuber-centric convention VidCon. “The explosive growth of the online celeb industry, combined with the shock of Grimmie’s death at the hands of what police described as a deranged fan, is forcing a reconsideration of what top YouTubers described as a freewheeling, if not naive, culture,” Buzzfeed reporter Claudia Rosenbaum wrote.

“The trick for online celebrities now will be balancing new security concerns and interacting with fans to build their brand,” Rosenbaum continued.